New Stagger Stator PMM Design. Review wanted before construction.

[nwman]

Technical name: Gaussian Flux Motor (GFM).

This is a design that has started its own thread off of ?Working SMOT by Tom Ferko? http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,1244.0.html. At the start of that thread Tom posted a video of an experiment he tried using two permanent magnet rails and a ring magnet. Most SMOTs have what?s known as a sticky spot which prevents any energy to be pulled from them. However, this has not stopped a lot of people from trying to figure out a way to do it. Tom tried what is best described as a stagger track. Similar to a V gate but with the rails staggered by half there lengths. This seems to allow the Ring magnet in the video to be pulled in, wave through, and be accelerated out the other side.

In the video below Tom demonstrated the magnet being pulled through and accelerated out the end of the rails. It does not show the ring magnet being pulled into the rails however from Tom?s description of the polarities of the rails the first rail the ring magnet encounters has the opposite poll thus it should pull the ring in. This is an assumption on my part which I am planning on trying to duplicate and test shortly.

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6531588179303444480

So what does that leave us? Tom in is thread went in one direction with that experiment which they are still trying to make work. I had another idea which I think has some merit. I entered Tom?s thread on pages 30-36 and then decided I needed a thread of my own. I will now repost a condensed version on my current theory.

[nwman]

Reproduction:
   I?m currently working on getting all the parts to reproduce the experiment in Tom?s first video. My goal is to see how the ring magnet reacts to the rails through the whole rang of movement through the rails. As shown in the picture below. With the a sitting at rest before the rails and then slowly moving the magnet forward until the magnet is pulled into the rails and accelerated through and out the end. This would practically prove that the magnets are accelerating the magnet and propelling it past the infamous sticky spot. Then I plan to test the following:

1-   How straight of a line can the ring magnet travel? (guides?)
2-   Is there a more optimal layout of the rails?
3-   Can a block magnet on wheels be pulled through verses the ring magnet?
4-   Would a piece of steel instead of the ring magnet/magnet work better?
5-   Can two or more rails end to end still accelerate the traveling object and let it travel free at the end?

Once I know the most optimal configuration I can create I then need to find a way to turn this liner track into something that can be looped.

[nwman]

Finishing the loop:

After taking a few baby steps with designs I had in Tom?s thread I came to a design I think has a good chance and is feasible for me to build. My first thought was to simply curve the rails so the magnet affixed to the edge of a wheel or arm could travel through the rails. And if it operated the same as on a linear track it should accelerate the rotation of the wheel enough to spin it back around and into the start of the rails again. This would then theoreticaly accelerate the rotation with every pass. This is probably the simplest version of the design which is show in the picture below.

[nwman]

Add More:

The next logical step would be to add more rails and ?rotor magnets? to the wheel to increase the moments of acceleration. First I added a rotor (total of two) shown in the picture above. Then I added two more rails like the picture below. Also, by positioning the rails at the right points a timing can be achieved that has one or more rotors being accelerated at any point when another is traveling through a sticky spot. This will only improve the ability to pass by the sticky spot.

[nwman]

Full Track:

Truly the ultimate configuration of the rails is a continuous track of staggered rails around the circumference of the wheel. However this is assuming that end to end rails will act the same as a single rail. I?m not sure how the magnetic fields would interact. Theoretically sets of rails that have space between them should work if anything at all will work. A continuous track of rails would only be an improvement. Below is a simple illustration of a continuous track.